Cartier Celebrates 100 Years in North America
On April 30th Cartier celebrated the 100th anniversary of Cartier in North America with an event at the Cartier boutique on Fifth Avenue. Attendees included Bernard Fornas, President & CEO of Cartier International, Fr��d��ric de Narp, President & CEO of Cartier North America as well as photographer Bruce Weber and Alan Khazei, founder and CEO of Be The Change, Inc. Celebrities on hand included Lisa Arian, Jessica Biel, Sandra Brant and Ingrid Sischy, Tory Burch, Nan Bush, Graydon Carter, Chiara Clemente, Maria Cuomo Cole, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Beth Rudin Dewoody, Susan Fales-Hill, Anne and Mario Grauso, Audrey B. Gruss, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Hearst, Sir Elton John, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Martin Luther King III, Phillip Lim, Richard Meier, Demi Moore, Her Majesty Queen Noor, Zac Posen, Laurie Tisch, Patti Smith, Martha Stewart, Justin Timberlake and Stephen Wynn, Kate Hudson, Eva Mendes and Rachel Weisz.Some images from the evening – click to view larger ve

The Value Proposition: The Meistersinger Salthora Meta Jump-Hour �C Single Handed Serenity
There are a lot of different ways to start a watch company. You can scour history books for the name of a distinguished watchmaker to appropriate (hurry though, the pool of respectable ones is shrinking fast.) You can come up with some exotic mechanism that has a lot of novelty appeal, but which may or may not actually hold anyone's interest after the first five minutes have passed. You can resurrect one of the casualties of the Quartz Crisis, and trade on borrowed good will created by a company that sold its last watch before the 1969 Astron was a gleam in Seiko's eye. 1 OF 5 Or, you can do something that's pretty rare: create interesting, well-thought-out designs that actually appeal to your customer's intelligence, instead of playing on their ignorance. (It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted, but building a business empire on this cynical truism seems a spiritually debased way to make a living.) In this small, elite group of firms is cult

watch style advice
i've narrowed down a short list to the final two and would like your opinions of which of these watches is a better stylistic or visual match with the photos below. IMPORTANT, please ONLY consider visual/style/superficial appearance and do not consider the technical merits of the movement, brand pedigree, or the price of the watches.if you have another watch I should consider that is a better match with the pictures than these two watches, please post the watch.thank you. edward

Incoming 5980
Hi all, very excited to be getting my first Patek tomorrow . A black dial 5980 stainless steel. It's been my grail watch for a few years, and with the news that its being discontinued I wanted to get it whilst I could - unfortunately that meant selling my collection of 3 Rolexes, so for the time being at least it will be my one and only!Will post some pics tomorrow. Any advice to a Patek newbie would be gratefully received

Incoming...incoming
Oh wow. I just pulled the pin on a Datejust 41 grenade and now I have DJ41 awesomeness all over my office. I had originally reached out to a few ADs that I have worked with and all three gave me fairly lame offers for such. I decided it was time to test the Grey Water, so to speak. Not going to lie, that was a bit unnerving at first, wiring a wad of cash to a guy you don't know, based on the recommendation from a bunch of people you don't know (TRFers). But DavidSW is, in fact, the man. I have read many, many posts where many of you have assured other new comers that all will be well. True story, all is well. Thanks all.Check out these bad daddies. A pair of 126334s, blue with jubilee, so smoking hot, and an exquisite white on oyster reference. Very pleased to say the least.